Stephen Colbert citations

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I would say laughter is the best medicine. But it’s more than that. It’s an entire regime of antibiotics and steroids. Laughter brings the swelling down on our national psyche, and then applies an antibiotic cream... Obviously, it’s a challenge to make light of the darkness but, um, it’s better than crying about it.
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My character is self-important, poorly informed, well-intentioned, but an idiot… So we said, "Let's give him a promotion."
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Such a proud moment of professionalism. You work for years crafting cogent satirical essays and the thing that everybody remembers is me making love to a Chiquita and bursting into laughter. What you can't see off camera is Jon started laughing first. And then I'm weak. As much as I want to make the audience laugh, I really want to make Jon laugh.
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À propos du sketch sur le prince Charles http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/mon-november-10-2003/prince-charles-scandal dans The Daily Show

I don't perceive my role as a newsman at all. I'm a comedian from stem to stern. You can cut me open and count the rings of jokes. If people learn something about the news by watching the show, that is incidental to my goal.
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Language has always been important in politics, but language is incredibly important to the present political struggle. Because if you can establish an atmosphere in which information doesn't mean anything, then there is no objective reality. The first show we did, a year ago, was our thesis statement: What you wish to be true is all that matters, regardless of the facts. Of course, at the time, we thought we were being farcical.
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À propos de « truthiness »

Rolling Stone interview (31 October 2006)
Contexte: We claim no respectability. There's no status I would not surrender for a joke. So we don't have to defend anything.

White House Correspondents' Association Dinner (2006)

White House Correspondents' Association Dinner (2006)
Contexte: I stand by this man. I stand by this man because he stands for things. Not only for things, he stands on things. Things like aircraft carriers and rubble and recently flooded city squares. And that sends a strong message, that no matter what happens to America, she will always rebound — with the most powerfully staged photo ops in the world.

White House Correspondents' Association Dinner (2006)
Contexte: I know there are some polls out there saying this man has a 32% approval rating. But guys like us, we don't pay attention to the polls. We know that polls are just a collection of statistics that reflect what people are thinking in "reality." And reality has a well-known liberal bias.

Source: I Am America

Source: I Am America

Source: I Am America

Source: I Am America

Knox College commencement address http://www.knox.edu/colbert.xml (3 June 2006)
Contexte: Don’t be afraid to be a fool. Remember, you cannot be both young and wise. Young people who pretend to be wise to the ways of the world are mostly just cynics. Cynicism masquerades as wisdom, but it is the farthest thing from it. Because cynics don’t learn anything. Because cynicism is a self-imposed blindness, a rejection of the world because we are afraid it will hurt us or disappoint us. Cynics always say no. But saying yes begins things. Saying yes is how things grow. Saying yes leads to knowledge. "Yes" is for young people. So for as long as you have the strength to, say yes.

Source: I Am America

Source: I Am America

Source: I Am America

White House Correspondents' Association Dinner (2006)

Source: I Am America